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Music Travel Monday ANNOUNCEMENT from VERA MARIE: Kerry Dexter’s blog, Music Road is a finalist in the 2012 Bloggies. You can go to the Bloggies page and vote for Kerry as the BEST Music blog on the Internet. Voting closes in mid February, so do not delay. Destination: Romance Music: Lover’s Well by Matt and [...]
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(One lucky person will be chosen at random to win a comic novel about Christmas. See below. Must act before Tuesday, January 10, 3:00 a.m.) Music Monday by Kerry Dexter Destination: Scotland Music: Acquaintance, by Jim Malcolm (Beltane Records) There’s a statue of him in Canberra and a town named after him in Oregon, his [...]
Music Travel Monday Destination: Texas Music: From Texas for a Christmas Night with Tish Hinojosa By Kerry Dexter A blue norther sending a crisp edge of winter wind down the plains, a hint of country back roads, a taste of Mexico and the border lands, the wide starry skies of the west, a two step round the Christmas [...]
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Music Travel Monday Destination: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Music: Celtic Colours Festival By Kerry Dexter As October brings a crisp edge to the air and leaves start to take on their autumn colors, music fills the air even more than it usually does across the island of Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia. It’s time [...]
Destination: Scotland Musical Album: Adoon Winding Nith (Whitefall Records) recorded by Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan A GUEST POST by Kerry Dexter Print PDF
Destination: Ireland Music: The Farthest Wave (Cathie Ryan) Here is the second post by Kerry Dexter of Music Road. This time she talks about a recording that introduces you to Ireland. Music for Ireland Contemporary Ireland is a country of connection and intersection. History, myth, and legend live as part of to the present in [...]
Destination: Scotland Music: Eddi Reader Sings Robert Burns (Eddi Reader) and Cuilidh, (Julie Fowlis) When I travel to a place, I frequently buy music along the way, and when I get home, the music takes me back. I like to put New Orleans jazz on while I’m writing, or listen to bouzoukis when I’m writing [...]